'Hotel Transylvania 2' Tops Box Office; A Third Movie to Happen?
The most awaited sequel of Sony's "Hotel Transylvania" arrived last weekend and it was a complete monster hit. As reported by Yahoo! News, "Hotel Transylvania 2" beat the other films like "The Intern" and "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" to the number one spot in the U.S. box office with $48.5 million in its debut weekend. The animated sequel sure smashed the record for biggest September opening. It also surpassed its first 2012 movie which opened to $42.5 million.
The sequel picked up after the events of the first movie. Dracula's (Adam Sandler) vampire daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) married human Jonathan (Andy Samberg) and their love bore the cute and curly red-head Dennis (Asher Blinkoff). But Dracula is worried that his grandson is growing up more human than monster, which later on caused Mavis to decide to move her son to a safer place.
But Dracula isn't on board with the decision so he devised a plan by sending Mavis and Jonathan away on a holiday so that he could train Dennis to be a monster and perhaps bring out his baby fangs. But things got a little crazy and out of hand when arch-vampire Vlad (Mel Brooks) appeared in Hotel Transylvania to bring doom and destruction to all.
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The computer animated fantasy comedy film, which is also co-written by Sandler, has garnered colossal success in the US and abroad. Cinema Blend reported that as of now, the worldwide gross of the movie totals $80 million. It will be no surprise if a third movie will be announced very soon. But if that does happen, it will have a major change. The Wrap revealed that the movie's director, Genndy Tartakovsky, will no longer work for a "Hotel Transylvania 3" in the future. Despite the mountain-high success, Tartakovsky chooses to let go of the film in order to go work on other ideas.
"'Hotel Transylvania 3' is going to happen without me," he tells The Wrap. "Two is enough. I have a lot of other ideas, and I kind of have to express them and have them come out."
It's a big question now if Tartakovsky's departure from the project will affect "Hotel Transylvania 3" if it pushes through. There's only one way to find out though and fans will have to wait for it.
